Category: Chapter Summaries

  Mokshasannyasa Yoga Prakriti (Nature),  Shraddha (Faith) and Karma (Action) The Supreme Secret - Action with Freedom  - Being One with Brahman, The ONE IN ALL and ALL IN ONE through Svabhaba and Svadharma SUMMARY In this concluding chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, SriKrishna gives a succinct synthesis of the content of the last seventeen chapters.  Every … Continue reading Chapter 18

Shraddha Traya Vibhaga Yoga Shraddha Traya Viveka Yoga Triple mode of Gunas, Faith and Works   BACKGROUND SriKrishna has explained exhaustively that Prakriti, Nature, is the active principle of the Divine Being who is the eternal, unchanging.   The unchanging Divine, wielding the changing Prakriti,  is always hidden behind the visible change.  In Chapter 16,  SriKrishna explained … Continue reading Chapter 17

Daivaasura Sampadvibhaaga Yoga Divine and Demonic Natures   BACKGROUND SriKrishna has described the whole science of right action,  Jnyana with Vijnyana,  spiritual knowledge with objective knowledge, as the basis to decide the right action and carry it to the highest perfection.  This dialogue, started in Chapter 7, reaching a climax with the grand vision of HIS Cosmic … Continue reading Chapter 16

Purushottama yoga  Super-Excellent Form of  The Supreme Being - A Complete Picture Easy Way to the Supreme Being - The Climax of Knowledge   In Chapter 15, in just 20 verses SriKrishna gives a: Complete picture of the visible and invisible universe as the abode of the Divine being with a beautiful analogy of it … Continue reading Chapter 15

Guna -Traya Vibhaga Yoga The Trigunas - Nature's Tri-Colored Web Navigating the Web with ease The following concepts are covered in Chapter 14: SriKrishna's reiteration of the complete formula of life. Explanation of the basis of how varieties of life forms appear. Explanation of the basis of all triumphs, unrest, chaos in the world. Explanation of … Continue reading Chapter 14

Kshetra Kshetrajnya Vibhaga Yoga Prakriti Purusha Viveka Yoga Real Knowledge - Knowing the Whole - The Field and its Knower The topics covered in Chapter 13 are: Definition of the terms Prakriti, Purusha, Kshetra, Kshetrajnya, Jnyanam, and Jnyeyam. Description of appearance of variety and multiplicity from ONE, unchanging reality. Knowledge of the Whole - Knowledge … Continue reading Chapter 13

Bhakti-Yoga Way of the Devotee The topics covered in this Chapter are: Difficulty/Inaccessibility of the path of worship of Divine as Supreme, Un-manifest (Nirgunopaasana) to gain Knowledge. Ease of the path of worship of visible, manifest forms of the Divine (Sagunopaasana) to gain Knowledge. Methods of practice with degrees of greater ease to reach to … Continue reading Chapter 12

Vishwarupa Darshana Yoga Vision of the Cosmic Being Time the Destroyer! Chapter 11  contains the most beautiful poetic and powerful passages of the Bhagavad Gita.  Here, Arjuna sees the complete living image of the unseen Divine.  The sections in Chapter 11 are: Arjuna declaring to Lord SriKrishna that he had imbibed fully the highest spiritual … Continue reading Chapter 11

Vibhuti Yoga  Ishwara Vaibhava Yoga Supreme Word of Bhagavad Gita Visible Signs of Divine Being's Grandeur, Power of Becoming The main topics of Chapter 10 are: Reiteration of the Divine Being's power of becoming that was explained in Chapters 7,8 and 9. The secret behind the human dilemma of dualities of good and evil natures. … Continue reading Chapter 10

Raja-Vidya, Raja-Guhya Yoga  Royal-Knowledge, Royal-Secret Greatest Mystery, Greatest Secret The topics covered in Chapter 9 are: Brief, Concise reiteration of relations -Individual and Divine Being - Jeeva and Brahman; Visible world and Individual - Jagat and Jeeva;  Divine Being and Visible world - Brahman and Jagat. Two possible natures of the human being. Knowing by direct experience the … Continue reading Chapter 9